Quotes About Interpretation

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

Art is apotheosis; Often, the complaint of beauty.

The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.

I don't understand beauty.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a large flat mouth a yellow belly and a brown back.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.